Re: Parse variable length, delimited, data into a data structure?

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I have a routine that tokenizes a String into array elements.  In order
to do what you are asking the routine would have to know the exact data
structure layout and field names so it doesn't seem likely, but you
could easily loop through this array and populate your specific DS. 
Maybe you could even do a nifty pointer trick to make it automagic, but
it hurts my head to think of that right now...

Hre's the doc, see if this will help:
http://www.rpgnext.com/docs/rnbstring.php#getTokens

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:10, David Gibbs wrote:
> Anyone know of a technique, or routine, that will take a variable 
> length, delimited, string of data and parse it into a data structure?
> 
> Ideally, I would like to have the data structure externally defined ... 
> and have the parsed values placed in each field sequentially.
> 
> I could probably write something myself, but if there's code out there 
> already, why reinvent the wheel?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> david
> 
> 
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